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October 4, 2013
Miley and Sinnead and Amanda and me: seventies feminism versus stiletto feminism
For those who have been too busy thinking about, oh, world peace or the government shutdown, apparently Miley Cyrus upset some people by twerking on TV and appearing naked in a music video.
Then Sinnead O’Connor published an open letter to Miley Cyrus, responding to Miley’s acts and the publicity that followed.
Then Amanda Palmer published an open letter to Sinnead O’Connor about her open letter to Miley Cyrus.
Y
ou follow all that? I did, and it reminded me of a landmark moment in my life.
I’ma s...
Saga, Series, and Just Plain Long Books
There is nothing an author today has to guard himself more carefully against than the Saga Habit. The least slackening of vigilance and the thing has gripped him.
– P.G. Wodehouse, writing in 1935
How little things change! I too am a victim of the Saga Habit. Fifteen Deverry books, four Nola O’Gradys — and I haven’t even finished the Nola series! Now SORCERER’S LUCK, which I meant to be a stand-alone, is insisting that it’s only the first volume of a “Runemaster trilogy”. Over the years, a numb...
BVC Announces Changespell Legacy by Doranna Durgin
The Changespell Saga Vol. III
Dun Lady’s Jess–all horse, all woman, all heart…and the only one left who can save her disintegrating world from magic gone awry.
Arlen of Anfeald is dead–or so his friends believe, for Camolen’s Council of Wizards has been cut down in a treacherous ambush of twisted magic…and the only surviving witness is a palomino stallion named Ramble.
Convinced that the twisted magic is a threat to all of Camolen, Carey–Anfeald’s Head Courier–p...
October 3, 2013
The Michigan Problem
Michigan has a problem: it has a bad self-image. It’s had a bad self-image for as long as I can remember. That’s why they keep changing the state slogan. They keep trying to perfect its image.
When I was a kid living somewhere in the northern section of the Lower Peninsula, the slogan was “Water, Winter, Wonderland.” That is a great slogan because, let’s face it, Michigan and winter go together like ski lodges and hot wine.
It was a great slogan, but when I was young I didn’t like it. I lived i...
BVC Announces Changespell, by Doranna Durgin
Changespell
The Changespell Saga Vol. II
byDoranna Durgin
Dun Lady’s Jess–once a horse, now learning the ways of the human heart: love, betrayal, and deadly revenge.
Jess, once a horse called Dun Lady’s Jess, is still struggling to integrate her human and equine selves when the wizard Arlen discovers someone in Camolen is callously turning wild creatures into bewildered and maddened human slaves.
It’s unsettling enough that Camolen’s wizards can’t find the rogue magic user–but the trouble has just...
October 2, 2013
What I Don’t Like About Season 6 of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer
Lately I’ve been re-watching Season 6 of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer on my tablet. Previously, I’ve re-watched Seasons 1-5 and Season 7, some episodes many times, but I’ve tended to skip Season 6 even though I like re-watching the shows in order.
Despite being a rabid Buffy fan, I never liked Season 6 as much as the other years. That wasn’t because Season 6 focused on dark issues faced by Buffy and her friends. I love it when characters confront the dark side.
I did find Buffy’s sexual relationsh...
What I’m Reading – The Hospice Edition
When I packed to travel out of state to help care for my best friend and her family during her final weeks of life, I had no idea how long I would be away. The ereader my daughter had passed on to me provided the ideal solution of how to carry a variety of books with me. I read at night as part of my bedtime ritual and I couldn’t anticipate what I would need at the end of each day. Horror, which has never previously appealed to me, might resonate with the depth of the grief of this entire hou...
BVC Welcomes Doranna Durgin
Doranna‘s quirkiness of spirit has led to an eclectic publishing journey since that her first award-winning novel, spanning genres over 40 publisher novels to include mystery, SF/F, action-romance, paranormal, franchise, and a slew of essays and short stories, and now combining those ongoing releases with joyful new indie efforts.
Beyond that, mostly she still prefers to hang around outside her New Mexico mountain home with the animals, riding dressage on her Lipizzan and training for performa...
October 1, 2013
BVC Announces Dun Lady’s Jess, by Doranna Durgin
The Changespell Saga Vol. I
When hikers Dayna and Eric find a naked and terrified young woman, they’re sure she’s the victim of foul play. But the truth is much more shocking: she isn’t human at all. She’s Dun Lady’s Jess, a horse transformed into this new shape by the spell that brought her and her rider, to whom she is utterly devoted, into this world.
Possessed now of human intelligence but still a horse deep inside, Jess desperately searches this world for he...
Everyone is still a virgin
La Pudicizia Velata by Antonio Corradini
“the veil of modesty”
Every time I write one of these Hinky Chicago books, I wonder if I have anything new to say about sex. Jewel is a busy girl, and Randy has a lot of imagination, and Clay is always standing by in case Randy drops the ball.
The Hinky Bearskin Rug is one of those books that sells itself to the publisher if you focus on the adult entertainment aspects. In fact a good chunk of the story is set in an adult printing company building, includ...
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